Julie Morgenstern is an internationally renowned organizing and time management expert, New York Times best-selling author, consultant and speaker. Her work spans the distance between individuals and work forces – homes and corporations. The “Inside Out” philosophy that is now synonymous with her name results in customized solutions that are innovative, practical and ensure long-term success.
For over 25 years, Julie and her staff have transformed the way individuals and companies function around the globe, including American Express, Hearst, HARPO, Deloitte, Microsoft, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, the NBC-Newsroom, the NYC Mayor’s Office, Sony Music, State Farm Insurance and Viacom/MTV.
Julie is known for her passionate, articulate style and warm sense of humor. She has written columns for O Magazine, Redbook, and Wells Fargo helping readers’ solve problems by inspiring order in their lives. She has shared her expertise on countless TV and radio outlets, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Rachael Ray Show, The Today Show, Good Morning America, and The National Public Radio.
She is quoted and featured regularly in a wide variety of publications and has been seen in The New York Times, Time Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, USA Today, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Best Life, O Magazine, Martha Stewart Living, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Fitness Magazine and Men’s Health.
Julie is the author of the classic tomes ORGANIZING FROM THE INSIDE OUT and TIME MANAGEMENT FROM THE INSIDE OUT, both of which have been developed into popular specials for PBS. Julie and her teenage daughter, Jessi Morgenstern-Colon, co-authored ORGANIZING FROM THE INSIDE OUT FOR TEENS.
Her workplace productivity and work-life balance tome, NEVER CHECK EMAIL IN THE MORNING, is now the basis of a popular training program conducted for the Fortune 500 and businesses worldwide. Julie’s book, SHED YOUR STUFF, CHANGE YOUR LIFE, takes her message to a new level, showing people how to use the process of decluttering to ‘get unstuck’ in their lives.
Her newest book, TIME TO PARENT provides a revolutionary framework for helping parents create the space for quality time with their children and for themselves. The book is based on Julie’s 26 years of field experience coaching parents around the world, and extensive research in the field of child development.
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Sneak Peek Into What You’ll Learn…
3:25 – Julie tells us more about her latest book, Time to Parent, which Julie describes as the ‘instruction manual about how to organize your time during the full span of parenting years.’
10:00 – Time to Parent is designed around a unique 8 quadrant framework to help us understand how to allocate our time. Julie describes the first 4 quadrants, the ones primarily focused on how we take care of our children.
18:35 – Most parents are not strong in all 4 of the quadrants related to taking care of children. Julie provides tactical advice about what steps to take to re-calibrate the way you spend your time as it relates to your kids.
25:38 – Julie discusses the importance of spending time in your ‘kids’ world’ and the reasons why you should work to understand it. She shares fascinating insights into the how spending time doing the activities your kids enjoy actually enables you to then share additional activities that you would like them to consider.
32:22 – It’s unusual for a parent to do well in all 4 of the quadrants Julie outlines related to how we should care for our children. What should you do if you are parenting solo and are worried that you cannot support your kids in all 4 quadrants well on your own?
33:33 – Julie provides great advice on a number of important and timely parenting questions including: quality vs. quantity of time you spend with your kids, how much of your children’s lives you should schedule, and talking to your kids about cultural norms and difficult issues in the national landscape.
51:02 – Julie describes the remainder the framework from Time to Parent and discusses the 4 quadrants related to how you should be taking care of yourself: sleep, exercise/movement, love/relationships, and fun.
56:02 – Brass Tacks: The lightning round of concrete advice and tips
Quotable quotes:
“I think while we’ve always debated quality vs quantity [time with your children],the answer is actually consistency. Consistency is the most important thing when it comes to connecting time.”
“Any working parent, don’t feel guilty. It’s not about adding time, it’s about changing the nature of the time you are already spending with your kids.”
“Before you walk through any door, take a pause and set your intention for what’s on the other side of that threshold…when you first encounter your kids…check in…then everyone feels seen, heard, cared about, loved…”
“I do think that defining a very simple set of values that are very clear to you as a parent, is the greatest time management rudder a parent can develop…”
“I think that no matter what work you do, and no matter where your career sort of leads you,…the truth is that you bring who you are to whatever you do…”
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